Michael Brown, Marc Mondragon and other members of the
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Technically described how the BIOS
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Thomas Lunde, Gabor Kiss and Carlo Belon

Noticed errors of grammar and typography.

Darren Young

Updates to
/etc/security/console.perms for
Red Hat Linux7.2.

Yasufumi Haga

Spotted many errors whilst translating this
HOWTO into Japanese for the
JF Linux documentation endeavour.

Thomas Horsley

Pointed out that the X Window
System may still need to be running even if a
serial console is used. Supplied the gdm
configuration used in Figure 7-3.

Greg Matthews, Nathan Neulinger and Romildo Wildgrube

Encountered and reported that machines hang when booting
if kernel parameter
console=ttyS…r is
used. This is due to a kernel bug which loops testing
CTS without firstly checking that
DSR and DCD are
asserted.

Suggested using the off clause in
/etc/inittab in Figure 6-9 rather than commenting or
deleting the excess mingetty
invocations. This has the advatage that no automated system
administration tool will restore the excess
inittab entries.

Yasuhiro Suzuki

Noticed inconsistent descrtiptions of Clear to Send and
Ready to Send.